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As some but not all of my readers know bloggers often "out" themselves with a list: "100 Things About Me". I recommend this exercise to everyone, even if you only share the results with your cat. This is actually my re-updated one hundred things, which I have now taken to revising annually or thereabouts. For regular readers, there has been about an 18.6% update this year, mostly for clarity, humor, sarcasm and pity.

1. Vagabondage: 2009 will go down as the only time in my life that I have not had a home of my own for the entire year.

40. I do believe in Karma and Reincarnation, well at least this time around.

41. From the age of twelve to twenty-six, I had the key to a pharmacy in my pocket.

42. My father was a small business owner, pharmacist, village councilman and volunteer fire chief.

43. I have a deeply repressed attraction to redheads.

44. I have about six dozen favorite quotes. Among them: "Before you love, learn to walk through snow leaving no footprints."

45. I think that The Simpsons is “a brilliant commentary on American culture” and so is the woman who first said that to me.

46. When anyone says their family is dysfunctional, I ask if they have ever seen The Osbournes.

47. There always seems to be one current reality show that I am addicted to. The list includes: Intervention, The Osbournes, Family Jewels, and currently The Girls Next Door.

48. I have many qualities that resemble a hibernating bear.

49. I have had several “families” over the years; the one in L.A. will always be the best, but we lost our center.

50. I have never been arrested. At a 1971 anti-war rally, a young officer considered it until his partner said: “…that guy outweighs you by fifty pounds and I'm not helping you if he resists.”

51. I have only three addictions: chocolate, oxygen and that other one. These seem to be giving way to new candidates. Updates on next year’s list.

52. Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie but not the director’s cut. I wrote a post: Movies of My Life that may intrigue movie buffs.

53. Catch-22 was once my favorite book. These days my favorite changes often.

54. Annie Lennox is my favorite female singer.

55. I adore cats of all sizes and I am fond of manatees.

56. In the last three years I have discovered the answer to several of life’s questions. However, I have found that an equal number of previously ‘known’ answers to other ‘big’ questions, no longer feel true.

57. Three of the most remarkable women I have ever met all live in Texas.

58. The other three I met in San Francisco.

59. I have lived in Michigan, Massachusetts, Germany, several L.A. South Bay suburbs, San Francisco, Las Vegas and whatever the next place turns out to be.

60. I am the middle child of five; I am typical of a middle child.

I am an Aquarius, double Capricorn.

61. I have many more conservative friends than I used to, but most of them tend to not know about my previous life and not to want to know.

62. I read Tarot. Those new friends tend to need to ignore this revelation.

63. I have some limited shamanic abilities. Ditto.

64. The best vacation of my life was in Bali.

The second was Key West. The third she keeps refusing to show up.

65. I would like to see New Zealand and much more of Canada; plus there are many parts of the U.S. I want to visit once again.